Pogba scores in World Cup final

July 15, 2018

Paul Pogba went some way to answering his critics on Sunday afternoon when scoring for France against Croatia in the World Cup final. His strike from outside the box, the first player to do this in the final since 1982, put his country 3-1 ahead. France went on to win 4-2.

Pogba is a world champion.

GOAL! Griezmann lays the ball off to Pogba on the edge of the box, his first shot is blocked but the ball comes back to him and he curls a measured left-footed strike into the corner pic.twitter.com/kjcJRmwVEV

Don't really mean to get on my high horse, but when someone commented last week........ “Your right about England. In London they all went crazy jumping on cars and vandalising all in the hope that it will come home.”........ All ?!

Bailly is our best defender, sadly he also seems somewhat injury prone and a tad ras. Imagine the experience of Bonucci or Godin next to him . It would be collossal.
Bonucci is available ... sign him!!!
Keep Darmian to help him settle. Let go of Rojo, Blind and Jones ...
if we're feeling Flush, we could get Sandro as well especially when you consider both Bonucci and Sandro played together in Juventus..
we have to invest to win, there's no two ways about it...

Yes Suker was class. I'll never forget the chip against Schmeichel in the Euros. I think he was also one of the first players I saw roll his foot over the top of the ball and sit the goalkeeper down in a 1 on 1 situation. Brilliant.

Anyway back to reality..
My head tells me to stick with the 433 and not to try and change it and we're all expecting a midfield 3 of Fred, matic and pogba..
BUT
José loves his 4231 and may just be tempted now that the world has seen pogba excel in a 2..

Interesting Guardian team. De Bruyne maybe had 2 good games (Brazil and England), whilst Matuidi, Kante and Pogba had more. Vida was good but in my opinion there were one or two better players in that position and similarly with Cheryshev.

@Hendrix
It's all subjective, and depends on formation etc, but I guess if you're choosing one creative midfielder 9 times out of 10 would go for Modric over Pogba, which is fair enough, but defensively Kante and or Matuidi should get a look in. De Bruyne wasn't that effective when played as deep so personally wouldn't pick him to play alongside Modric over any of the French trio, all of whom including Pogba did the defensive stuff very well. Just my tuppence worth.

I don't think we're a million miles away with our thinking. For me it's largely about style of play too and getting the maximum out of a decent squad. But I'm going to have my very optimistic rose-tinted specs on, well, for the start of the season at least.

Hendrix
For me the squad's decent. Three quality signings and a decent utility player to replace Blind and we wouldn't be far off the top European clubs. However, the way the team is set up to play seems to jar with the type of players we have and that for me is the fundamental reason why we have been underperforming. I too hope Jose has something up his sleeve.